8px's Clipped Content – #2

Hello!

We're back with issue 2, a bit sooner than I had originally planned but my Dropbox Paper document of good resources was bursting at the seams and I didn't want things to get stale.

Enjoy the issue, and of course if you have any feedback do let me know 👂

Luis

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Shutting down 4 startups: lessons learned

Denis is very open here, and offering some great advice for those of us looking to start our own businesses one day. Hint: it's not as simple as those Medium articles tell us.

Denis Shatalin @Denis__Shatalin

I shut down 4 startups. Here are 4 crucial mistakes I won't repeat next time:

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🐦 "No one listens" – facing this as a designer

Lovely thread by Laura Yarrow, offering advice to us all when we're inevitably faced with this problem at work. How can we get our team to appreciate our opinions?

Laura Yarrow @laura_yarrow

Over the years the most common designer complaint has always been "No one listens" and "UX isn't a priority/understood", so I want to throw something controversial out there: Some of this is our doing. A quick(ish) thread on why and how to fix it 🧵 #uxdesign #design #ux

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📖 Creating low-carbon images

The web is polluted with oversized and bloated imagery, can we be a bit greener?

Read this article

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🐦 Behind the scenes of Paper app

Launched over a decade ago, the drawing / doodling app now owned by WeTransfer is great. The co-founder of it recently created a Twitter thread going behind the scenes of it.

(Andy) @asallen

10 years ago we released Paper and it forever changed how I see Design. This is the untold story of how the app came to be… https://t.co/NmPgNKercN

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📺 Behind the scenes of Dune's musical score

This is so cool, honestly. Hans Zimmer takes us through all of the unique sounds and instruments (and voices!) they used when creating the music for Dune.

📖 101 design rules

The team behind Collins, a brilliant design studio have collated 101 design rules by which they create their work.

For example, "Are you going to tell a story? Then tell a big story. An enormous story. An epic story. Or tell no story at all."

Read this article

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😂 Something to laugh at

luis. @disco_lu

Every time I start a new file https://t.co/XTjvVp1zq8

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Did you know we have a podcast?

8px Radio is light. I ask the same 5 questions to every guest!

Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube

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See you next time

@8pxmag